Creative Photo Manipulation By Ruadh DeLone

Ruadh DeLone is a freelance photographer and photo manipulator. His works have been published in a few magazines as well. He recently did a series called “Head Gear” which involved people wearing different items on their head, for example, a bow tie.

I looked into more of his work and he has some extremely weird shots. Here are just a few.

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While these photo-manipulations are good and I'm sure a great deal of effort is made while producing them, honestly, I don't think they're that impressive. There are tons of better photo-manipulations which look much better. I don't like the inconsistencies in sharpness and the blending needs more improvement. Just my personal opinion, no disrespecting anyone.

Of course, the manipulation work makes these purely illustrations, which is fine. But whatever one thinks of them -- the quality of the work, as mentioned by Qashrul, or the emotional responses -- what I see is excellent lighting technique and color in the base photographs. I would like to see more pure in-camera work from Mr. DeLone, because I suspect there would be much to see and enjoy.

I had to go through these multiple times. They are very interesting and they make me wonder... I think they are executed very well. There may be a couple that are weak in comparison to the others, but there is a few in here that are exceptional. I commend him for this series.